Estelle Quotes
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Don't sell credits; don't sell walk-on roles... If people want to back you, they'll back you. But if you have to entice people will walk-on roles and crazy credits, you're undermining yourself.
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Critics haven't taught me my cricket, and they don't know what my body and mind are up to.
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When I'm writing something, I try not to get analytical about it as I'm doing it, as I'm writing it.
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Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat.
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I enjoy meat, but I can do without it.
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We've used up a lot of bullets. And we talk about stimulus. But the truth is, we're running a federal deficit that's 9 percent of GDP. That is stimulative as all get out. It's more stimulative than any policy we've followed since World War II.
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Women are the real superheroes because they're not just working. They have a life and everything.
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The imperial vastness of late Roman architecture was made possible by the invention of concrete.
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The more you know, the less you are impressed by Foucault.
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Virtues, n. pl. Certain abstentions.
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My goal keeps me alive, and no personal issue is going to interfere with that. If people try to put me in the crazy box–'crazy fucking Courtney'–go ahead. But if you think you’re going to stop me from where I’m going, you’re not going to do it. I work my ass off. I deliver the goddamn goods. And I will deliver them again.
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To betray, you must first belong.
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I always want to be a person who challenges herself to be a better person and spends her time giving rather than receiving.
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Quiet is better than loud.
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As an adult, it's hard for me to remember my mother before her sickness. But if I go back into childhood, I can access that.
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People often say that if you have to work hard at a marriage, then it's not naturally good, but I think that's totally wrong.
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The first and most natural way of lighting the houses of the American colonists, both in the North and South, was by the pine-knots of the fat pitch-pine, which, of course, were found everywhere in the greatest plenty in the forests.
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For me, 'The Social Network' isn't about Facebook. It certainly isn't about how people use it. It's about a flawed character and his pursuit of that grand idea that defines him and validates his life and how far he'll go to get it, and the repercussions that come as a result of that - what he gives up in the process.
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From the R&B side, I've always been a huge Brian McKnight fan. He's just as talented as it gets vocally, and as a musician. I think it'd be real cool to do something with him.
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As long as we have the possibility then we still have to fight for it.
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Make choices that bring love and joy to your body. It's not about perfection; it's about love and gratitude for an amazing body that works hard and deserves your respect.
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I think sometimes when our childhoods are difficult, we forget that there's also a lot of joy.
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I think one of the few faults in Dickens is that mostly his lead characters are blanks - who is David Copperfield, who is Oliver Twist? And yet he takes such joy in populating the rest of his novels with these fantastic, grotesque people like Pecksmith and so on.
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I'm so, so full of joy that America elected Obama.
